I had a great colleague who started programming at ~35. And the thing I noticed with him, which I strongly agree, is that you should pick something you like and

I had a great colleague who started programming at ~35. And the thing I noticed with him, which I strongly agree, is that you should pick something you like and start a little project. Nowdays is kinda impossible get stuck, StackOverflow + Youtube pratically solves every problem you can go into while learning. Basically if you really do have passion and conclude any little project you started ( it counts lot of points in cv, sometimes more than references...) I think you can get easily hired in low time as a Junior programmer.